Chuppah… carried out or free-standing?

I have had this dream of the chuppah proceeding in the wedding processional. I think it will be beautiful and a nice way to honor FI’s sisters who I unfortunately cannot include in the wedding party (most of them have babies anyways and are prob too busy to be a BM!) I’ve talked to other bees and I’m not worried about it being too heavy for them, I think they’ll be just as okay as the rest of the wedding party standing for the whole ceremony.

My only worry about it is making pictures difficult for the photographer if there are four people holding the huppah around us. Does anyone have experience with this or is anyone able to shed some light on this? My wedding is a year away but I want to ask FBIL to make the huppah and I want to give him enough time to do it. Let me know!!! Thanks bees!

i’ve been to a few weddings where there were chuppah holders. yes, there are extra people but the photog will have to move around more to get pictures. it did not block the view from the guest’s perspective.

we are having a stationary chuppah. florist were too expensive to rent.

i bought a 8×8 white tent at Ollies for $25 and i am draping my great grandmother’s veil and father’s talit over it.

At my son’s wedding, they had the parents be chuppah holders. There was no real issue for the photographer, as the four poles were thin enough they didn’t really cover anything. Actually, the one issue was for us. If the poles had been rested on the ground, they wouldn’t have been long enough to keep the chuppah over everyone’s heads. So we had to hold the bottoms of the poles up, which became pretty tiring.

@nawella: You’ll probably need to do a bit of experimenting on the pole height. The fabric will be a bit lower at the center of the chuppah than at the poles, and the amount of the difference will depend on the size of the chuppah, and the weight of the fabric. You’d obviously want to make sure that the lowest point of the fabric is higher than the height of the tallest person under it.